Agentic AI: User Empowerment or Foreclosure?
arXiv:2608. 06510v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Agentic AI promises systems that can act on users' behalf, from filtering content to negotiating prices to selecting services.
arXiv:2608. 06510v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Agentic AI promises a more flexible form of digital agency: systems that can act on users' behalf, from filtering content to negotiating prices to selecting services.
arXiv:2608. 06510v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Agentic AI promises systems that can act on users' behalf, from filtering content to negotiating prices to selecting services.
arXiv:2606. 12437v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: The increasing encroachment of artificial intelligence (AI) on social life raises significant risks for society, particularly within the infospheres created and controlled by companies such as Google, Facebook, Apple, and Amazon.
arXiv:2607. 24391v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: AI systems already govern.
arXiv:2607. 05363v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Personal agents are becoming persistent user-owned intermediaries: they remember preferences, filter platform-mediated information, use tools, and negotiate with services.
arXiv:2606. 17286v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: AI-enabled authoritarianism is not confined to autocracies.
arXiv:2608. 03076v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Multi-agent studies commonly place AI agents in predefined games, markets, or roles, making it difficult to distinguish endogenous economic organization from behavior inherited from the scenario.
arXiv:2608. 15131v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Digital platforms govern by changing rules: rankings, monetization thresholds, moderation standards, verification systems, disclosure requirements, appeal processes, and access policies.
arXiv:2606. 16054v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Research on artificial intelligence and democracy has grown quickly over the last decade.
arXiv:2606. 00621v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Generative artificial intelligence has fundamentally changed how content is now produced.
arXiv:2606. 26203v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: As AI agent protocols proliferate, the governance structures shaping their interoperability standards remain empirically underexamined.
arXiv:2606. 19464v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Autonomous agentic AI systems driven by Large Language Models (LLMs) introduce a new class of security, privacy, and compliance challenges: an agent that can invoke tools, manipulate data, install software, and coordinate with peer agents across organizational boundaries must be constrained not just by authentication and access control, but by the full structure of enterprise governance.
The World Wide Web was built on an assumption held for three decades: the primary consumer of web content is a human being. This permeates every layer; its access model presumes human visitors, its economics rest on human attention, and its content targets human perception.